It is “that time of the year” again. Nearly four years ago, my country Saudi Arabia ventured into its first political campaign to elect members for its 178 municipal councils (MC) Kingdomwide.
In the recently concluded 11th summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference at Dakar, the capital of Senegal, the participating countries unanimously demanded that Israeli leaders and military
The 26-member states of NATO begin a two-day summit on Wednesday in the Romanian capital Bucharest. Top of the agenda will be the alliance’s involvement in Afghanistan. At the moment the one thing
The uproar in the Philippines by the militant workers’ group Migrante over the 117 overseas Filipino workers who recently ran away from their employers and ended up living under a bridge in the Kandara
Precisely a century ago, in a suburb of Boston, a child called Bette Davis erupted into the world. She was not only a woman; she was an electrical storm with skin. With nothing but raw talent and raw
On Dec. 10, 2001, after completing his Al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sajid Badat returned home to Britain. Badat, 22, a Muslim born in Gloucester, had an associate, a gangly man named
A few days into the sixth year of the Iraq War, the flagship NPR News program “All Things Considered” aired a discussion between an anchor and a familiar guest. “To talk about the state of the
